Viktor Nikonets

Viktor Nikonets was a colonel of the Ukrainian Air Force during the March 2014 Crimean Crisis. On 9 March 2014, he gave an interview to Vice News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky, telling him that the Russian Army troops who stormed the Ukrainian Air Force base under Vitaly Onishenko commended the Ukrainians for not giving up the base without a fight, and that they were hostages of the situation as well.